Racism in America - Black NYPD Police Chief dissed

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Chief Zeigler is lucky they did not shoot him. If his was not locked then I have no doubt that they would have tried to disarm the chief of his firearm.


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Officer Disciplined For Stopping, Questioning Chief
May 11, 2008

A white police officer has been disciplined after he stopped and questioned a black driver -- who turned out to be the highest-ranking African-American officer in the NYPD.

Chief Douglas Zeigler -- who heads the Community Affairs unit -- was confronted by two officers while sitting in his car last week. Police say one of the officers tried to force open Zeigler's door, even after the chief had identified himself.

The incident is drawing fire from activists, including the Reverend Al Sharpton, who says it proves many police officers engage in racial profiling:

"This isn't nobody that you thought in the middle of the night might have had a record, doing something wrong, this is a police chief with ID and you don't believe him," said Sharpton. "That's why we're going to do civil disobedience every week until we straighten out what's going on in this town."

According to the Daily News, the officer was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty.

An NYPD spokesman says, "He dealt with the chief in a discourteous manner, which is unacceptable."

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An NYPD spokesman says, "He dealt with the chief in a discourteous manner, which is unacceptable."

If it didn't happen to a high ranking police officer they would have said the officers were just doing their job.

[Time]

How can a detective argue with a chief?

If it didn't happen to a high ranking police officer they would have said the officers were just doing their job.

Plainclothes officers in trouble - didn't recognize off-duty chief

By ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, May 10th 2008, 4:00 AM

Three-star NYPD Chief Douglas Zeigler


At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens, the Daily News has learned.
"How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don't know," a police source said.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.

One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.

What happened next is in dispute.

In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelley, Zeigler said the two cops, who are white, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.

After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him.

The cops gave a different account:
When one officer spotted Zeigler's service weapon through the rolled-down window, he yelled "Gun!" according to sources who have spoken with the officers.

Both cops raised their weapons and ordered the driver out of the car, sources said.

Instead of saying he was an armed member of the NYPD, Zeigler shouted, "Don't you know who I am?" the sources said.

When one cop reached over to check the identification badge around Zeigler's neck, the chief pushed him away, sources said.

Only then did Zeigler tell the two officers his name and rank, those sources said.

Zeigler, in his discussions with Kelly, said the officers never yelled "Gun!" sources said.

One cop got into a heated argument with the chief even after seeing the ID, sources said.

That cop was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty last night, sources said. The status of the second officer was unclear.

The incident occurred as the NYPD is under fire for record numbers of pedestrians being stopped and frisked, the majority of them black or Hispanic. Some 145,098 people were stopped by the NYPD in the first quarter of this year.

Zeigler has headed the Community Affairs Bureau since January 2006. His wife, Neldra Zeigler, is NYPD deputy commissioner for equal employment opportunity.

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[Mosiah]

An NYPD spokesman says, "He dealt with the chief in a discourteous manner, which is unacceptable."

What's more discourteous than shooting someone to death?

Are Sean Bell's killers still in the force?

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Why should the rules be any different for the chief?

[Time]

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Why should the rules be any different for the chief?

The NYPD is a paramilitary organization and the chief was way above this detective in senority. Once the chief identified himself the detective should have address him with total respect.

[Peter R]

"The incident occurred as the NYPD is under fire for record numbers of pedestrians being stopped and frisked, the majority of them black or Hispanic. Some 145,098 people were stopped by the NYPD in the first quarter of this year. "


We could do with some a that in these parts, and racial profiling wouldn't be a issue.

I wonder what they found on the 145,000 still?

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The NYPD is a paramilitary organization and the chief was way above this detective in senority. Once the chief identified himself the detective should have address him with total respect.

But it's okay to disrespect normal citizens? If it was a regular citizen this same chief would be standing in front of microphones at a press conference defending the officers action.